AutoCAD Drawing
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DWG (from drawing) is a proprietary binary file format used for storing two- and three- dimensional design data and metadata. It is the native format for several CAD packages including DraftSight, AutoCAD, ZWCAD, IntelliCAD (and its variants), Caddie and Open Design Alliance compliant applications. In addition, DWG is supported non-natively by many other CAD applications. The .bak (drawing backup), .dws (drawing standards), .dwt (drawing template) and .sv$ (temporary automatic save) files are also DWG files.
Key facts
- File format.name
- DWG
- File format.icon
- .dwg file icon.svg
- File format.extension
- .dwg (plain).dws (standards).dwt (template)
- File format._noextcode
- on
- File format._nomimecode
- on
- File format.mime
- image/vnd.dwg
- File format.genre
- Computer-aided design
- File format.developer
- Autodesk, Open Design Alliance and others
- File format.open
- Open but Proprietary
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- computer-aided design
- Subclass of
- proprietary file format
- Developer
- Autodesk
- Has use
- 3D computer graphics
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- Commons category
- DWG file format
- file extension
- dwg
- media type
- application/acad
- described at URL
- www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000445.shtml
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Version history
- History
- Autodesk trademark
- DWG support in freemium and free software
- See also
- References
- External links
DWG (from drawing) is a proprietary binary file format used for storing two- and three- dimensional design data and metadata. It is the native format for several CAD packages including DraftSight, AutoCAD, ZWCAD, IntelliCAD (and its variants), Caddie and Open Design Alliance compliant applications. In addition, DWG is supported non-natively by many other CAD applications. The .bak (drawing backup), .dws (drawing standards), .dwt (drawing template) and .sv$ (temporary automatic save) files are also DWG files.
== Version history ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “AutoCAD Drawing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.